National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1887-06-27
a Democratic Indictment of Democ-
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racy.
The Macon CGa.) Telegraph, for south
efn Democratic paper, is exceedingly broad
and liberal in its views. Its surroundings
are such that the ideas It has and would
gladly promulgate can only be told in
way that lessons their force, because the
assertion or insinuation Of q falsehood
destroys the force Of the truth which the
Telegraph desires to inculcatc.
The Telegraph is strongly in favor OF and
advocates protection. It favors the Blair
educational bill, and comprehensive
scheme Of public improvements, aud It
Knows the Democratic party opposes, while
the Republicans advocates these measures.
ftknows that TO indoctrinate the people With
these ideas would be to secure Republic ~
success, and that only through Republican
SUCCESS can these ideas be formulated into
laws. Yet hoping against hope, it con
tinues to advocate Democratic ascendency
and Republican policies. 1t is trying to
convert the Democratic party to correct
Republican doctrines, and to do this advo-
Gates the principles and slauders the Rcpub-
lican party. The task IT has undertaken Is
as hopeless as that Of Sisyphus.
The telegraph indulges In the vain hope
of improving the Democratic party-a hope
as vain as that Of the builders OF the tower
Of Babel. 1t caters to and helps keep alive
the vicious southern public sentiment, en-
gendered by partisan hate, demagogy and
greed Of Office on the part of scores OF in-
competants, by the assertion OF hatreH
upon the part of the Republican party to the
south and southern men.
Here is what the Telegraph says iu an
article brought out by the flag episode:
The Republican party Is not dead, but the
load 1t carries in the shape of r2en OF the She's
man, Fairchild, Larrabee, and Tuttle stripe
PARALLELS its right arm. Nothing can be done
with the south by coercion. There Is way
the Republican party could win strength and
representation here. If they should drop the
sectional torch, the bayonet and the bloody
shirt, and with olive branches for banner,
and business principles and measures fOr
weapons come into the southern states Il
their lines were of steel rails and their forts
factories, nothing could stand before them.
Tie pledge of this lies in tho eager trustlnl.
ness with which fcints toward this policy have
been received, the attitude of the whole PEP
pie toward northern capital and capitalists
and the many CalIS Tor q new party.
The pressure from without hn; forced al
these PEOPLE on one line, regardless OF poiItIca'
iuclinations or business policies. They have
lain in the bitches and knitted for living so
long that the fields have run down, the ore in
the mountains lain too long idle, and the op.
poItunlties for trade have been neglected
They want n change and broader opportuni-
ties. and better men in office, aud and better
business methods and principles in leglsla
tion. These they cannot get while there Is
upon them political pressure stronger thar
business necessities The curse OF the south
is its one idea political aud one idea business
system. That these are largely necessities now
ought 10 be known as well north as south, and
surely by this time some large element of tht
Republican party should have seen the oppor-
porlunity presented and should have prevaile
in the establishment OF policy of peace and
progress.
The Telegraph knows thoroughly well
that the Republican party carries no "ssc.
tional torch" waves no "bloojy shirt;'
that Its "bayonetsn were sheathed ut Ap
pomatox, and the only "coercion" 1t pro-
poses is that which comes from overpower-
ing argument.
The "coerclou, the bayonet, and the
bloody shirt" are all In the hands Of the
southern Democratic leaders. They drove
the Republican negroes from the ballot box
with the bayonet and they "coerce" the
southern whites, the Telegraph included
by talking OF the "blooly shirt"
The Telegraph says "Ihey (the south,
,rdat a change, and broader opportunities
aud better men IN Office, aal better business
methods and principles il leyislatioa,n
This is terrific indictment, and II made
by a northern Republican paper, would be
called ty the Telegraph, in common with
all the south, "waving the bloody shirt"
and "slandering the south"
Suppose we andlyze that sentence "They
want a chenge'-from Democratic rule, O
course, because the subject Is politics aud
''the south is ruled by Democrats. TheJ
want broader opportunities" In polite
of course. They are narrowed down TO on,
idea, "Republican success means 'nigger